UBUNTU-CVE-2014-2672

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2014-2672

    Published: 1 Apr 2014Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2014-2672
    Aliases:
    USN-2221-1
    USN-2223-1
    USN-2224-1

    Summary:

    Details: Race condition in the ath_tx_aggr_sleep function in drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a large amount of network traffic that triggers certain list deletions.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-2672, http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=21f8aaee0c62708654988ce092838aa7df4d25d8, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2221-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2223-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2224-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2225-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2227-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2228-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-2672

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: linux

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.13.0-20.42

    Affected versions

    3.11.0-12.19

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High